seca of oe George and in the Bulkley Valley between Smithers
and Telkwa. A pair that frequented several old dead cottonwoods
near the latter place, and were accompanied by full grown young,
probably nested in one of the trees which had several old wood-
pecker holes in the trunk.

What may have been an early migration involving some 20 adults
and young was observed between Telkwa and Topley on July 26 Others,
apparently transients, were recorded at Francois Lake during the
second week of August

Blue Grouse-—Dendragopus obscurus Say.

_ On duly 20 and July 21 a few blue grouse, including two females
with broods of small young. and at least one old male, were seen on
alplands above Red Rose Basin in the Rocher Deboule Mountains. The
females and young frequented open slopes amongst the heather, the
male, or males, dense thickets of procumbent fir. At Francois Lake,
August 15, a female and brood of at least four nearly full grown
young were observed on a rocky, brush-covered slope just above the
lake. Blue grouse are reported from various mountains adjacent to
the Bulkley Valley, but these were the only ones seen.

Three specimens collected, viz-; an old, adult male, Rocher
Deboule, July 21, a young male and a young female, Francois Lake,
August 15, are considered to beultra-typical examples of the dark
subspecies Dendragopus obscurus richardsonii Douglas.

Franklin Grouse--Canachites franklini (Douglas).

Several females were flushed in the Baker Creek Valley region
in May and on May 10, Mr. Carl Quanstrom found a nest with nine
eggs about five miles north of Puntchesakut Lake. He described the
site as being beside a fallen tree in open lodgepole pine forest.
The female flushed as he rode by.

In the region north of Prince George it was more plentiful.
At Summit Lake during the last week of June a female and brood of
10 young, about one-fifth grown on June 27, frequented a brushy
clearing and roadway. The female was exceptionally tame-—even
for this characteristically unsuspicious grouse--and permitted me
to take a series of photographs while I stood at a distance of 10
feet or less (Fig 37). On one occasion when I disturbed the
family in the clearing the female remained on the ground until

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